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Ticket to Ride Nordic Countries for sale
After seeing the prices Ticket to Ride: Nordic Countries goes for in eBay, I decided this was an opportunity I probably shouldn’t miss (an opportunity to help my fellow geeks, that is). So, I’ve got one for sale myself: Ticket to Ride: Nordic Countries (or Menolippu Pohjoismaat, to be exact). Starting price is $49.99, shipping…
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Visiting Jyväskylä: Villa Paletti, Da Vinci Code, Agricola
I was visiting my parents in Jyväskylä this weekend and as usual, games were played. We started already in the afternoon with Villa Paletti. I like the game, and this reminded me why. It’s just so much fun. The last game we played was particularly delicious. The lowest level was supported by three small pillars:…
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Thursday session: Agricola, Kuhhandel
After a quick round of Geschenkt, it was time for a double dose of agriculture. Agricola! After figuring out the puzzle of how to fit the game on the table, I went through the rules. Let me say Agricola isn’t a game I like to explain… Just too many things to do, yet most of…
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Few notes
About 800 euros worth of board games makes a big pile. It fills two big boxes. It’s great to have delivery services that bring stuff to your door, with no extra costs. As it’s rather wet and icy outside, I’m not sure I’d be alive (or, if not else, have all my bones intact) had…
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Thursday session: Slovenian Tarok, Ottocento
When I arrived, the guys were already playing Mhing. No problem: I dealt myself in and joined the game. It’s flexible that way… Didn’t win the first hand, obviously, but in the second, I got out on what, fourth or fifth card. Getting three jokers in the deal sure helps. My hand was a true…
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Thursday session: Race for the Galaxy and Canal Mania
We started the session with Race for the Galaxy. Our game took something like 40 minutes this time, so it’s getting faster, perhaps. I went with the novelty goods, as my start cards were bent that way. I got a pretty good engine going there, with Consume: Trade producing a hefty pile of cards and…
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Nooa and board games
Nooa is the cutest little gamer. He just loves to play with game boxes, trying to open them. His eyes just light up whenever he sees game boxes — particularly when I get some games in mail and there’s a bunch of games lying on the floor, he’ll go crazy. I’m wondering what’s going to…
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Thursday session: 1960 and Ubongo Extrem
Yesterday’s game session put quality over quantity. I spent two hours playing 1960 with Sami; this included the rules explanation (15 minutes of that, 1 hour 45 minutes of game). I took Nixon and campaigned against Sami’s JFK. I had told Sami that the endorsements were important and as a result, he beat me out…
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Agricola review
Maik Hennebach’s The two player game and a look under the hood is an excellent review of Agricola. It describes the game well and is entertaining to read; all in all, it’s one of the very best board game reviews I’ve ever read.
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First look at Ubongo Extrem
I picked up Ubongo Extrem from the post office today. It’s rather neat! The basic idea remains, but the puzzles are now much harder! The tiles are made of small hexagons, three to five per tile on most tiles. Three-tile puzzles are still fairly simple, but the four-tile puzzles are now downright fiendish. Even the…